Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 6, Number 5, 1 Mei 1989 — Hawaiian Authors Hold Reading May 12 at UH [ARTICLE]

Hawaiian Authors Hold Reading May 12 at UH

Ramrod, a loeal literary magazine, will be having a free public reading Friday, May 12, at Kuykendall Hall auditorium on the University of Hawai'i campus. Reception is at 7 p.m. and the reading follows at 8 p.m. Some of the writers that will be reding from their works are: T.M. Goto, Richard Hamasaki, John Dominis Holt, 'Imaikalani Kalahele, Leialoha Apo Perkins, Tony Quagliano, and Kathryn Waddell Takara. There will also be a short film presentation on the late Frank Marshall Davis, a reknowned black poet who lived in Hawai'i from 1948 to 1987, and separate amplified poetry performances by the Hawai'i Amplified Poetry Ensemble. Ramrod is a multi-cultural literary magazine founded by editor Joseph P. Balaz in 1980. It publishes writers from Hawai'i as well as writers from the South Pacific. To date Ramrod has published eight issues under the imprint of Iron Bench Press. Originally independent, the last two issues of the literary magazine were published through a grant from the Hawaiian Cultural Research Foundation. Edited by Hawaiian editor Joseph P. Balaz, Ramrod has featured other Hawaiian artists and writers such as Alva Andrews, Dana Naone Hall, John Dominis Holt, 'Imaikalani Kalahele, Miehael McPherson, Leialoha Apo Perkins, Haunani-Kay Trask, and Wayne Westlake. The magazine has also published writers from Tonga and the Cook Islands, including internationally known writers such as Hone Tuwhare from Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Albert Wendt from Western Samoa. Balaz is also editor of the soon to be published Ho'omanoa: A Collection of Contemporary Hawaiian Literature.